MAY 2013 A Celebration of Women in Jazz ...... 1 Maryland All-State Senior Jazz Band ...... 5 Jazz Jam Sessions ...... 6 JAZZ ALLIANCE The Second Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase . . . . . 7 Lady Day Way ...... 8 WEAA’s CD Jazz Pick of the Month ...... 9 BJA Member Notes, Products and Discounts ...... 10 Ad Rates and Member Sign-up Form ...... 11

VOLUME X ISSUE V THE BJA NEWSLETTER WWW.BALTIMOREJAZZ.COM A Celebration of Women in Jazz

PHOTO BY ROBERT SHAHID L to R: Corinthia Cromwell, Rhonda Robinson, Camay Murphy, Gail Marten, Carla Wills, Maysa Leak, Gabrielle Goodman, Navasha Daya

n Wednesday, March 20th, the Eubie Blake Cultural Following her graduation from Morgan State University Center and WEAA-FM radio ushered in spring by in 1991, Maysa left the Baltimore area to become a backup Ocelebrating Women's History Month with a panel singer for Stevie Wonder. She characterized this as a positive discussion on women in jazz . experience overall; but when she joined the British jazz funk Internationally renowned vocalist Maysa Leak and WEAA group Incognito, Maysa found it necessary to establish her - senior producer Carla Wills moderated. The panelists included self and demand respect from this all-male group. She is cur - saxophonist Corinthia Cromwell; vocalist and co-founder of rently on tour with Incognito and in the process of recording the band Fertile Ground Navasha Daya; vocalist and educator her tenth solo CD. Gabrielle Goodman; vocalist and songwriter Gail Marten; ed - Cromwell, a graduate of Howard University and a pro - ucator and historian Camay Calloway Murphy; and vocalist tégée of Wynton Marsalis, received a Master’s in Music from and flutist Rhonda Robinson. The format provided each of New York University. Her CD Peace of Mind was recently re - these accomplished women an opportunity to discuss her in - leased. She told the audience that, even today, one of the most troduction to and experiences in the world of jazz. difficult challenges she faces is convincing male musicians (continued on page 2) A Celebration of Women in Jazz (continued from front page)

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he Baltimore Jazz Alliance (BJA) is a Tgrass-roots organization of jazz afi - cionados, musicians and venues dedi - cated to enhancing and promoting jazz in Baltimore and the surrounding areas. New members sharing this passion are always welcome as the BJA continues its efforts to build a stronger and better net - worked jazz scene. Together we can WEAA senior producer Carla Wills and internationally renowned vocalist Maysa Leak help this music thrive in the region and moderated the panel discussion. reward listeners and musicians alike. BJA Priorities that she's a sax player, not a vocalist. Her aspect of your career. • To develop new audiences for jazz belief is that one of the strongest ele - Gail Marten emphasized the great • To strengthen communication within the jazz community ments of the music is its healing power. pleasure that being part of the music • To improve media relations on During the panel discussion she read her world has brought to her life. Marten has behalf of the jazz community poem “Silent Masters,” which honors received numerous international awards • To bring greater visibility to the many of the great women of jazz. for her songwriting and recordings, and entire array of jazz offerings in the Daya studied and graduated from her sixth self-produced CD, In Love Baltimore region • To provide greater access to Morgan State University. In addition to Again , featuring pianist Larry Willis, was performance opportunities for her vocal talents, she is a songwriter and named one of The Best 20 Vocal CDs of Baltimore-area jazz musicians producer. As co-founder and director of 2009 by jazz critic and journalist W. Visit www.baltimorejazz.com the Healing and Performing Arts of the Royal Stokes. Marten expressed grati - for information about our Youth Resiliency Institute, she is known tude to the male musicians who encour - accomplishments and future goals. for mentoring the younger generation. aged her in advancing her career. She An outspoken individual, she believes also stressed the importance of what you Baltimore Jazz Alliance that one must demand respect from say to children, as your words may en - 847 North Howard Street one’s fellow artists. courage or discourage them from realiz - Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Goodman is a graduate of Peabody ing their potential. Please direct your Conservatory and currently an associate Educator, historian, researcher and questions and comments to: professor at . writer Camay Calloway Murphy is the [email protected] She is also a composer and has been a elder statesperson of the group and the backup singer for Roberta Flack, Chaka daughter of legendary artist Cab Cal - Khan, and Patti Labelle. Goodman loway. Founder of the Cab Calloway BJA STEERING COMMITTEE stressed the importance of demanding Jazz Institute and Museum at Coppin Alice Downs respect and appreciating the business State University, she also served as chair Barry Glassman, Founder Leslie Imes Bob Jacobson, Vice President Todd Marcus UNIFIED JAZZ ENSEMBLE Marianne Matheny-Katz Camay Calloway Murphy, Emerita EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT at 49 WEST CAFE Mark Osteen, President 49 West Street in Annapolis, Maryland Robert Shahid, Treasurer 410-626-9796 / www.49westcoffeehouse.com $6 cover / www.unifiedjazz.com

Page 2 / May 2013 Baltimore Jazz Alliance of the Eubie Blake National Jazz Insti - tute and Cultural Center. Discussing the history of music in the early days, she pointed out women's second-class citizenship and indicated that life for women in the music world was very difficult. Murphy’s aunt, Blanche Cal - loway, was part of this world, yet her courage and determination enabled her to establish an all-male band. Financial assistance for her family, not fame, was her main motivation. Continuing to be an avid supporter of jazz is one of Mur - phy's priorities, as evidenced by her many community projects. Rhonda Robinson was educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Sande Shurin Acting Studio in NYC and Peabody Preparatory in Balti - PHOTOS ON PAGES 2 AND 3 BY TONY BUNN more. Her initial pursuits were musical theater and singing classical and gospel Gabrielle Goodman and Camay Calloway Murphy music. She turned to jazz later in her ca - reer. She cited two early female per - the audience to an impromptu sample your most important asset. Your talents formers, Lillian Armstrong and Mary of this technique. should be your priority and it is neces - Lou Williams, describing how their ca - Improvisation: “One musician talk - sary to strike a balance between re - reers progressed through many styles of ing to another with their instrument or spectability and female appeal.” the music. their voice. In order to speak this lan - This wonderful evening concluded At the end of the discussion the group guage, knowledge of chord changes is with a jam session led by Craig Alston weighed in on the following topics: necessary.” and the EBCC house band. Many of the Scat singing: All agreed that Ella Audience: “You must be exposed to panelists and musicians from the audi - Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Betty the art form. If jazz is to have a future, ence performed, to the delight of those Carter were the ladies to listen to and it is important that we all get out and in attendance. This uplifting event learn from, even though Louis Arm - support live venues.” played to a full house. strong started it all. The group treated Female sexuality: “It must not be – Gina

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Baltimore Jazz Alliance Page 3 / May 2013 The Baltimore Chamber Jazz Society presents… The FREDDY COLE QUARTET SUNDAY, MAY 5 th 5 PM “. . . the most maturely expressive male jazz singer of his generation, if not the best alive . . .” ( The New York Times ), the 80-year-young Freddy Cole is a living link to the Great American Songbook , which he delivers with a smoky baritone and an impeccable sense of swing. FREDDY COLE , /vocals; RANDY NAPOLEON , guitar; ELIAS DAILEY , bass; CURTIS BOYD , drums

$35 General Admission THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART $33 BMA/BJA Members & Seniors 10 Art Museum Drive $10 Students Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Free pre-concert gallery tour at 3:45 (registration required 443-573-1818) BUY TICKETS ONLINE: www.baltimorechamberjazz.org More info at: www.baltimorechamberjazz.org BJA Members now receive a $ 2 discount off the general admission price! Just indicate your affiliation when ordering tickets. Baltimore Chamber Jazz Society The Baltimore Chamber Jazz Society is a non profit organization and is supported by a P.O. Box 16097 Baltimore, MD 21218 grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to 410-385-5888 cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.

Page 4 / May 2013 Baltimore Jazz Alliance Maryland All-State Senior Jazz Band ust one week after hearing the stel - lar performances of “young lions” JSam King (age 23) and Tim Green (30) at the BJA’s co-sponsored Saxo - phone Colossi concert, we heard an im - pressive group of even younger jazz musicians—the Maryland All-State Senior Jazz Band. On March 2nd, this ensemble of twenty-two high school musicians put on a great show at the PHOTO BY DAVE COHN UMBC Jazz Festival. To seven pieces— 2013 Maryland All State Jazz Band, March 2nd, UMBC Recital Hall, mostly jazz standards—they brought not only solid technical abilities, but Christopher Vadala, Conductor, University of Maryland, College Park surprising polish, soulfulness and re - straint. One would have thought they Chambers lick.” Vadala also taught them while maintaining the intensity. You had been playing together for months professional survival skills, such as the have to be listening to all the other in - or even years, not just two days. importance of taking breaks (“Pace struments.” Now in its fifteenth year, the All- yourselves so you have enough energy The concert started with Bill Potts’s State Senior Jazz Band is one of eight to get through everything.”) Hearing “Happy Blues,” a bouncy, upbeat tune ensembles organized annually by the some noodling between songs, he told on which about half the players took Maryland Music Educators Association them, “Save the chops, okay?” Vadala solos. Next up was “Stolen Moments,” (MMEA). According to MMEA Execu - also imparted ways of thinking about featuring a very pretty, mature solo by tive Director Mary Ellen Cohn, mem - music (e.g., “heading up the mountain” McDonogh School’s Matthew Burkett bers are chosen through blind auditions, to a solo). At the concert he characterized on tenor sax, with very nice solos fol - this year from one hundred entries. the piece “Oliver” as having three differ - lowing on soprano sax, bass and vibes. Since only two Maryland high schools ent “personalities”—symphonic band, Trumpeter Stephen Davis, from offer classes in vocal jazz, vocalists are samba, and jazz. The band rehearsed Bethesda, brought appropriate fire to a not eligible to enter. This year the typical what has to be the slowest, quietest ver - mambo arrangement of Dizzy Gille - big band instrumentation was aug - sion of “When You’re Smiling” that has spie’s “A Night in Tunisia,” followed by mented by vibes and electric bass. ever existed. Teaching a wonderful les - Thelonious Monk’s “Well, You Need - Acoustic and electric bass players both son in dynamics, Vadala softly told n’t” and Duke Ellington’s “Cottontail.” doubled on percussion. them, “It’s a whisper at the beginning.” Wesley Hunn, lead tenor saxophonist, We attended the band’s rehearsal on He addressed every student musician by from Colesville, contributed a sublime the afternoon of their evening concert at first name. “They’ve earned that re - solo to “When You’re Smiling.” This UMBC. All quotations below were taken spect,” said Vadala. He also eschewed young man’s musical maturity on this from the rehearsal or from interviews the often-seen experience of the profes - and other solos, including quotations conducted between the rehearsal and sional playing with a youth band. “This from various jazz standards, was really concert. is their show, their honor,” he said. something to hear. The last entry was MMEA made a great choice of con - Hart Guonjian-Petit, lead trumpet “Oliver,” a very challenging Latin tune ductor in Chris Vadala, saxophonist and from Towson High School, was one of played by the Tonight Show band in its Director of Jazz Studies at University of the few musicians here for the second days under Doc Severinsen. Many au - Maryland, College Park. This was his time. He said that the maturity level is dience members echoed our wish that forty-eighth experience conducting all- higher this year, the talent is “spread this forty-five minute show had been state jazz bands, his third in Maryland. out more” throughout the sections and longer. Throughout rehearsals Vadala imparted the song selection is more upbeat, re - The only downsides to the All-State jazz history. Of (Oliver Nelson’s) “Stolen quiring more energy. He expressed ap - Jazz Band effort were the absence of fe - Moments” he said, “Steven, you’re Fred - preciation for the opportunity to play male musicians and any student from die Hubbard. Hansu, you’re Eric Dol - on such a high level, for “having Chris Baltimore City, and the lack of public phy. You guys are the personification of Vadala’s knowledge of everything that awareness about the concert. We hope history.” Vadala talked to these teens is jazz, to help us grow.” When asked these shortcomings will be rectified about “the Basie sound,” related how about “When You’re Smiling,” he said next March, when the All-State Jazz big bands like Maynard Ferguson’s op - that the selection “shows the highest Band concert will again be part of the erated on the road, and told bass player maturity level. It takes a lot of effort to UMBC Jazz Festival. Clarence Allen II, “That’s actually a Paul keep the band in time at that tempo, – Bob Jacobson and Rhonda Robinson

Baltimore Jazz Alliance Page 5 / May 2013 JAZZ JAM SESSIONS www.jazzway6004.org where the cats congregate to groove and grow presents * NOTE: As these events may be subject to change, it’s always a good idea to CALL AHEAD for CONFIRMATION.

Mondays Museum Restaurant & Lounge – Monday night jam sessions hosted by SPICE. 924 N. Charles Street. 8-midnight. 410-528-8630 Tuesdays Mount Paran Presbyterian Church – Tuesday night open jazz jam sessions/book and poetry readings Tuesdays hosted by Derrick Amin. Sponsored by BJA. Musicians and vocalists are welcome. 10308 Liberty Road, Randallstown. 6:30-8 pm. Contact Derrick Amin: [email protected] or 410-696-8574 SATURDAY, JUNE 29 th 8pm Wednesdays Eubie Blake Jazz Institute – SECOND Wednesdays. Outstanding house band hosted by Craig Alston. 847 N. Howard Street. Jazz jam JAZZWAY celebrates its with the emphasis on playing standards. Vocalists may bring charts. $5 cover. 7:30-11 pm. 410-225-3130 6th Anniversary of Great Jazz Latin Palace – Wednesday night jam sessions hosted by Jesse L. Powers, Jr. and SPICE, 509 South Broadway. All are welcome. with vibraphonist WARREN WOLF Dress to impress. $5 cover. 8-11:30 pm (410) 522-6700 Phaze 10 – Wednesday night jam sessions at Phaze 10 hosted by and The AARON DIEHL TRIO ! April Sampe and The Next Level Band. 885 Howard Street. performing a mix of original compositions along with 8-midnight. 410-462-2010 The Big Easy – Wednesday night jam sessions at The Big Easy a tribute to THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET Restaurant & Lounge, 9820 Liberty Road, Randallstown. Musicians and vocalists are welcome. $5/$7. 8-11:30 pm. 410-922-1980 Warren Wolf vibes / Aaron Diehl piano 49 West Café – FIRST and THIRD Wednesdays. “Starr’s Jazz Jam” at 49 West Street, Annapolis. Hosted by John Starr and house David Wong bass / Rodney Green drums band. Musicians and singers very welcome! Delicious and reasonably priced food and drink available! $10 cover. 7-10 pm. TICKETS : $38 General Reservations 410-626-9796 $33 BJA Members (per registered member) / $18-students All tickets include entry in a merchandise raffle, soft drinks, Thursdays an elegant post-concert dessert, fruit and cheese buffet Tilted Pig – Thursday night jam sessions hosted by Tom Reyes and PLUS Birthday Cake! friends. 771 Washington Boulevard (in the Pigtown neighborhood.) House drums and PA system, featuring the band’s Hammond B3 All tickets must be purchased in advance at: organ. 8 pm. 443-449-7622 http://www.jazzway6004.org/products.html NO tickets at the door. The Place Lounge – “Tho’ Down Thursdays” jam sessions hosted JAZZWAY 6004, 6004 Hollins Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210 by Jesse L. Powers, Jr. 315 W. Franklin Street. Musicians and Phone: 410-952-4528 or 410-624-2222 (info line) vocalists are welcome. 7-10 pm. 410-547-2722

If you know of local jam sessions, please share the information with our readers by emailing the details to the editor at: See website for all upcoming events: [email protected] www.jazzway6004.org

Page 6 / May 2013 Baltimore Jazz Alliance The Second Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase

The BJA is proud to announce that the second Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase will be held on November 3rd, 2013, at Loyola University’s McManus Theatre. Long-time Baltimore jazz fans will remember the first Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase, which the BJA staged in October, 2005. It was our first event and first success. But we’ve changed a few things for the second Showcase. The most exciting change is this: the BJA has received a grant from the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund that enables us to commission four new compositions by Baltimore-area jazz composers! These new compositions will be premiered at the event. We welcome your applications. Here’s how it works. 1. Submit three previous compositions for jazz combo as lead sheets, full scores, or recordings. You must include the sheet music; a recording is recommended but not required. You may send these electronically—as pdfs and mp3s—to [email protected], or send the material by mail to the BJA by June 1, 2013. For current BJA members, the application fee is $10; for non-members, the fee is $25 ($20 for students), which also purchases for you a one- year membership in the Baltimore Jazz Alliance. Please address your mailed submissions as follows: BALTIMORE JAZZ ALLIANCE Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase Submission 847 North Howard Street Baltimore, MD 21201

Please include a bio with your submission that briefly lists your educational, performing and composing creden - tials. If submitting by mail, please include a check for your application and membership fee made out to the BJA. If you’re submitting electronically, you may pay your application and membership fee by clicking the “Do - nate” button on the BJA website (http://baltimorejazz.com), and following the instructions. 2. A jury composed of BJA member musicians will select the winners. 3. Three winners will receive commissions of $400 to write a new composition for jazz quintet—piano, bass, drums, saxophone and trumpet—to be premiered at the second Baltimore Jazz Composers’ Showcase. The student winner will receive a $300 commission. 4. Winners will be announced by June 15th. 5. After the commissions are awarded, the jury will select four to six additional composers whose work will also be performed at the Showcase. The BJA will send out a second solicitation announcement for this round. Com - posers who apply for, but do not receive, a commission will automatically be considered for the second round.

The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund is the creator of the Baker Artist Awards Visit: www.BakerArtistAwards.org

Baltimore Jazz Alliance Page 7 / May 2013 Lady Day Way Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday will soon be cel - ebrated by another major artistic effort in the city where she came of age. Mayor Stephanie Rawl - ings-Blake, Baltimore Of - fice of Promotion and the Arts and PNC Bank re - cently announced that the Upper Fells Point Im - provement Association (UFPIA) will be one of the two grant recipients for the second annual PNC Trans - formative Art Project. Each selected community association receives a $30,000 grant to produce destination art that per - manently reinvents community spaces. The program brings residents together with the arts and corporate communities to fund and create projects that attract visitors to Baltimore City neighborhoods. UFPIA’s tribute to Holiday will consist of one mosaic, five murals, wall plaques, and painted screens in the 200 block of South Durham Street, the very block where she lived. The block will be named Lady Day Way and serve as a commu - nity centerpiece and tourist destination. Artist Joe Rizza will create the Billie Holiday mosaic, and muralists Michael Kirby, Bridget Cimino, Anne Kotleba and James Eichel - berger will paint images of Billie Holiday on designated walls on the block. Previous memorials to Billie Holiday include a statue at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Mosher Street, a fig - ure at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, and a mosaic mural at Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center. Lady Day is also included in murals with other jazz greats on Carey Street (between Cumberland and Baker Streets), on North Avenue and Duncan Street, and at McElderry and Duncan Streets, next to the Northeast Market. Billie Holiday Court is off Eager Street. rent eubie Live ! – Bob Jacobson Eubie Live! is a new state-of-the-art performance venue in Baltimore offering a small, yet intimate setting for music, dance and theater. Eubie Live! provides patrons with a unique ambience reminiscent of WANTED: NEW MEMBERS the jazz clubs of the 1920’s and 1930’s on the fourth floor of the Eubie Blake Jazz Institute. Totaling more than 2,000 square feet in area, If you enjoy reading our newsletter, please Eubie Live! comfortably seats more than 100 patrons and is physically show your appreciation by joining the BJA. challenged accessible. The space includes the latest technologies in If you're a musician, joining will get you on sound to give patrons the best performing arts experience possible. our email list for gigs. If you just love jazz, Please call 410-225-3130 for booking opportunities. your membership will help our efforts # Special discounts available for BJA members! immeasurably. Membership form on page 11 or join/renew at: http://baltimorejazz.com/join-the-bja www.baltimorejazz.com

Page 8 / May 2013 Baltimore Jazz Alliance WEAA’s Cool Jazz Pick of the Month CHRISTIAN M cBRIDE: PEOPLE MUSIC inc e day one, one thing I’ve always Sloved about our WEAA listeners is their wide musical palate. Since the beginning, WEAA has played straight-ahead jazz, contemporary jazz and a taste of R&B, which we’ve now expanded to include an occasional neo-soul tune. This month we are highlighting an artist who has played in all of these genres. I’d argue that he’s the most in-demand bassist of the last twenty years. I’m talking about someone who is no stranger to Baltimore—the Philadelphia native, Grammy award-win - ning bassist, and all-around cool cat, Christian McBride. McBride returns to the Mack Ave. label for another go-round as he presents People Music. It has been about four years since McBride got his acoustic quintet Inside Straight together. The core of the group features saxophonist Steve Wilson; Baltimore’s rising star and McBride’s label mate, vibraphonist Warren Wolf; pianist Peter Martin; and drummer Carl Allen. They all play on six of the album's eight original compositions. McBride contributes half of the repertoire for the project, but also highlights the writing skills of his bandmates. I love getting inside the mind of Christian McBride! In his bio at Amazon.com, he shares the following about this new release: “Sometimes jazz musicians can get too caught up in their own heads; they get so serious and so caught up in their creativity that they're not bringing the people in. So I figure the best way to communicate is to let the people navigate where you should go.” McBride refers to creating “people music” as his personal mantra. McBride is an artist who takes all he has learned across the genres and presents it in a way that truly brings the lis - tener into his experience. People Music is a high-energy proj - ect with some great straight-ahead playing. Tune into WEAA all month long to hear selections from this release and for your chance to win Christian McBride & Inside Straight’s People Music , our CD of the Month. Marcellus Shepard Program Director/Syndicated On-Air Personality WEAA-FM

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. – Duke Ellington

Baltimore Jazz Alliance Page 9 / May 2013 Baltimore CD, DVD, Gig and Jazzscapes II The BJA’S 16 track compilation CD Venue Reviews Baltimore Jazzscapes II , showcases Baltimore jazz artists performing in BJA members may submit their formats ranging from piano trios commercially produced jazz CDs or DVDs to large ensembles, playing every - for review consideration to: thing from standards to original con - BALTIMORE JAZZ ALLIANCE temporary jazz. 847 No. Howard St., Baltimore, MD 21201 PHOTO IMAGE BY LEO HOWARD LUBOW The new tracks (all but two of them original compositions) on Jazzscapes If you would like to have a GIG or VENUE II testify to the breadth and depth of the contemporary Baltimore jazz reviewed, please contact: scene. Jazzscapes II also presents a bonus track by the late Baltimore [email protected] saxophonist Mickey Fields, an inspired rendering of “Lover Man.” Please note that we’re less likely CD available at www. cdbaby.com and numerous retail outlets in to review bands or venues that have Baltimore including: already been covered in previous issues. AMERICAN VISIONARY ARTS MUSEUM, 800 Key Highway BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, Art Museum Drive www.baltimorejazz.com AN DIE MUSIK, 409 N. Charles Street BALTIMORE SYMPHONY STORE, 1212 Cathedral Street bja member notes FELLS POINT VISITOR CENTER , 1724 Thames Street JAZZ HOUSE WEST, 6035 Liberty Road Welcome To Our New Members RECORD & TAPE TRADERS, 7551 Ritchie Highway, Glen Burnie Music Lovers: Sulakshana Bhattacharya, Jennifer Haire, and 736 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson Dorothea Jordan, Richard Norman, Maxine Shindel, Amy Siegenthaler, REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM GIFT SHOP, 830 E. Pratt Street Jennie Spratt, Mark Tomassoni, Sherrie Kober Evans, Marcia Updike, SOUND GARDEN , 1616 Thames Street, Fells Point Joseph Coons, Eric Victor, Patrick Millard, Victoria Bradley, Martin Ames, Yasmin Shepard, Jim & Tru Ginsburg, James Friedman and by the various band leaders on the disk Musicians: David Baker, Karin Abbott Anniversary Celebration Barbara and Carl Grubbs celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary with friends, family and musicians on April 6th. Music Instructors The Baltimore Real Book BJA has added a MUSIC INSTRUCTORS page to our website. Published by the BJA, this unique book Submission should include what instruments can be taught, a short bio includes 54 original compositions by of 30-50 words, and contact information including email and phone 18 Baltimore jazz artists. number. To list your name, contact: [email protected] Advertise at the BJA Website BJA is now accepting ads at our website. For rates and requirements, Members may purchase copies directly from the BJA contact: [email protected] for $8 (20% discount) or at the following retail outlets: Appalachian Bluegrass, 643 Frederick Road, Catonsville Baltimore Brass & More, 99 Mellor Avenue, Catonsville bja member discounts Bill’s Music, 743 Frederick Road, Catonsville An die Musik offers 10% discount for BJA members for music Coffey Music, 31 E. Main Street, Westminster purchases at the An die Musik record store. Dale Music, 8240 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring Chamber Jazz Society of Baltimore is now offering BJA Music Go Round (“C” Book only), 10112 York Road, Cockeysville Members a $2 discount off the general admission price. Just indicate Peabody Bookstore, 5 E. Centre Street, Baltimore your affiliation when ordering tickets. Reisterstown Music Center, 519 Main Street, Reisterstown Eubie Live! at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center at 847 N. Howard Rosso Music Center, 5600 Ritchie Highway, Brooklyn Park Street offers a discount to BJA members on rentals of its performance Ted’s Musician Shop, 11 E. Centre Street, Baltimore and events spaces. and events spaces. The Guitar Center (“C” Book only), 1524 E. Joppa Road, Towson Jazzway 6004 offers BJA Members a $5 discount on performances and 6320 Ritchie Highway, Glen Burnie at their venue. Washington Music Center, 11151 Veirs Mill Road, Wheaton

Page 10 / May 2013 Baltimore Jazz Alliance display advertising REMEMBER …BJA offers FREE online promotion of your jazz events! LOW RATES for ad placement Reach a targeted jazz market by advertising in the enter your gigs at: BJA Newsletter. Limited space. Reserve early. www.baltimorejazz.com Email your print-ready ad* to: [email protected] direct questions or comments to: *Ad Specs: Original B&W line/vector artwork in jpg format at [email protected] 600 dpi are preferred. Pixel-based images should be 300 dpi or higher resolution. AD PLACEMENT RATES AND SIZES: 5 1 $12.50 for 1/8 page (3 ⁄8 in. wide x 2 ⁄4 in. high) 5 3 $25 for 1/4 page (3 ⁄8 in. wide x 4 ⁄4 in. high) 1 3 *do you Need a display ad? $50 for 1/2 page (7 ⁄2 in. wide x 4 ⁄4 in. high) horizontal ad 5 3 $50 for 1/2 page (3 ⁄8 in. wide x 9 ⁄4 in. high) vertical ad JAZZ PALETTE GRAPHIC DESIGN will design 1 3 $100 for full page (7 ⁄2 in. wide x 9 ⁄4 in. high) your print ready display ad for a reasonable fee. Deadline for ads and payments: 15th of the month prior to the appearance of your ad. 410-290-5638 [email protected] LIMITED SPACE. Reserve your ad space EARLY. BJA reserves the right to reject inappropriate copy. Payment (checks only) payable to BJA should be mailed to: Baltimore Jazz Alliance Gail Marten, Editor/Designer 847 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Baltimore Jazz Alliance Newsletter Please indicate ad size and month(s) for placement. [email protected]

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Saturday, June 1st 7 pm LEA GILMORE CLASSICALLY BLUE concert & live recording

Featuring Derrick Thompson Mitchell Coates, Jesse Moody and Special Guest the legendary Phil Wiggins

The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center 847 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 FREE admission, but MUST call or email to reserve your ticket: 410-225-3130 or [email protected] For more information contact Jessica Nusbaum at [email protected] Proceeds from CD sales will go the Franklin Square Middle School “Baltimore Voices” Program Food and drinks will be available for sale.